On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:10:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > mouseemu --help > > just starts mouseemu. > It's mouseemu -help
Ok. But if I supply "--help", which is then an invalid switch, it should instead fail and complain about the invalid switch (and maybe suggest to use "-help" to get help). > > Now I'd like to reconfigure mouseemu to something saner (which allows me > > to access those functions that F10 and F11 were actually useful for in > > my system): > > - What are those numbers I have to provide to its switches? > > -> undocumented. > They are in /usr/src/kernel-headers-*/include/linux/input.h or can be > shown by the showkey utility in a console. Ok. You could then add a line about it in the manpage, such as: "The numbers in the switches are key scancodes: you can see them looking at /usr/src/kernel-headers-*/include/linux/input.h or using the "showkey" utility (if you have never used showkey, don't forget to read its manpage for informations on how to exit from it)". > > - How do I disable mouse mapping, keeping only the "disable touchpad > > while typing" feature? > > -> undocumented. > The default mappings provided by upstream are F10 and F11. On my system > these mapping worked quite well because I don't use these keys. > But I'd like to discuss a better way for the default configuration. I > see the following options: > > 1) leave the default as it is and just give better documentation on how > to change it. (Do you think that a debconf note would be justified in > this case?) > > 2) Change the default to not do any mouse button emulation by default. > This will probably annoy other users, but is a safer option. > > 3) Add some debconf questions to configure wheter the different features > should be activated or not. I'm not sure if this is really worth the > effort. > > 4) something else? Uhm... given the package description (great on macs, useful on others), I would do this: - Emulate right and middle button on macs (as this is the expected function there) - Do not emulate buttons on archs with multi-button mice (but just do the disable-touchpad thing). One could have a use for emulating the middle button on 2-button mice, but that is usually acheived by clicking both buttons by default, so it can be a feature disabled by default that someone can activate. Would this default be ok, also to existing users on mac? A medium-priority debconf note is an interesting option as well (independently on this proposed default). > > A shame, because the package has got the potential to be really useful. > Sorry, your bug report shows me how difficult it is to package an > application one knows quite well in a way that things obvious to me are > also documented for others. It's not that I deliberatly underdocumented > this package or that I didn't care enough. I spent enough time packaging > it that I also want it to be usefull. Don't worry, it's normal: everytime you scale to a larger audience you have less shared knowledge and you hit this sort of problems. I really love to see mouseemu around, though: both for the disable-touchpad feature, and for knowing where to look at when I want to know how to mess with the new 2.6 input system :) Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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